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In a significant development, a House committee has released video footage of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answering questions concerning their connections to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.
The recently unveiled recordings capture the Clintons’ depositions, which took place over the course of two days last week. Throughout the sessions, both Clintons sought to clarify their ties to Epstein, maintaining a stance of clear detachment from his illicit activities.
During his testimony, Bill Clinton recounted that he severed ties with Epstein well before the latter’s 2008 guilty plea to charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor. Clinton explained that their association began in 2002 when he traveled on Epstein’s private jet for humanitarian missions, but their relationship ended the following year.
In his statements to the committee, the former president emphasized, “There’s nothing that I saw when I was around him that made me realize he was trafficking women.” His testimony underscores his effort to distance himself from the scandal surrounding Epstein.
“There’s nothing that I saw when I was around him that made me realise he was trafficking women,” Bill Clinton told the committee.
Epstein visited the White House numerous times during Clinton’s presidency and there are photos of them shaking hands, but Bill Clinton said he did not recall those interactions.
Hillary Clinton said she never even recalled meeting Epstein.
Still, they faced hours of questioning under oath from lawmakers who are searching for accountability for anyone who was aware or ignored Epstein’s abuse of underage girls.
One line of questioning stirred up curiosity from lawmakers, and that was what Clinton had to say about President Donald Trump.
He made clear he believed it was important for anyone, including presidents, to come forward and testify to their knowledge of Epstein.
Clinton also shared how he and Trump had briefly discussed Epstein at a charity golf tournament more than 20 years ago.
He said Trump had never “said anything to me to make me think he was involved in anything improper with regard to Epstein,” but also remarked that those two men had a falling-out over a real estate deal.
Republican lawmakers left the deposition pointing to Clinton’s words and arguing that it showed there is no evidence that Trump ever did anything wrong in his own relationship with Epstein.
Democrats, meanwhile, said Clinton’s testimony counters what Trump has said more recently about why he and Epstein had a falling-out.
Trump has told reporters they had a disagreement because Epstein had hired people away from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
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